Boston Baby--Day 1

Stephen and I got away for 5 days at the end of June and took a trip to Boston.....Stephen's brother lives there and it's a great place to visit.  We were really really needing a break away (our last break (I think) was when we were pregnant with Lindsey 5 years ago!!) We had some frequent flier miles and a place to stay, AND my brother and his family were staying with us for a few weeks and were willing to become parents of 6 kids (our 4 plus their 2--THANKS AGAIN) and BOOM--perfect plan!

We nearly missed our flight out of Dallas!  We were on time but it took forever to get through security, then found that they'd changed the terminal we were flying out of so we had to traipse across DFW International and arrived at the gate with 10 minutes to spare--but they'd closed the doors early calling it a "critical flight", we complained and pitched a fit, thankfully we had a "platinum frequent flier" who had been caught off the flight as well and he convinced them to open the door and let us on.  WHEW!

Arriving in Boston, it was HOTTER than expected as we seemed to have brought Texas heat with us!  Joseph was held up at work but he met us for lunch (we ate so well while on this trip, I'm telling you!) and then left us to do some things on our own while he finished up.

We did the DUCK TOUR: 

This is a great way to see the city and I'm really glad we did this first thing.  This really is one of those "trucks" that turn into a boat and take you onto the Charles River.  It was really hot and we were quick to chug some Gatorade and buy some bottles of water for us to use while we were there. 

We walked around a bit more, thought about trying to do a tour of Fenway Park but forgot there was a game and when we arrived we figured out they weren't doing tours (oops!) so we walked back to Joey's apartment where we met him and girlfriend Liz and we took a walk through Boston Public Park and saw the statues memorializing the "Make Way for Ducklings" children's book (and bought a copy for Ben & Summer)

Then we went to dinner at "The Oyster House" the longest continually running restaurant in the United States.  The clam chowder was awesome and of course I ate an oyster and Stephen had a mussel... I'm not a fan of oysters but I can now say I've eaten one and where better to have them than at "The OYSTER house"?  The meal though was great!

Then we walked more through the Italian part of town and hit up Mike's Canoli's--my first experience with this heavenly pastry and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND them!!